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2 Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 11 No.1 March 2014

nd so we start a new era of the Pickwick Bicycle
Club magazine. Your former editor –Joe the Fat Boy
A(aka Stan Rose) - took it from a news sheet to the
professional status it has today. I know the committee
honoured him at the Garden Party in December, but I would
like to add my personal thanks to him and his wife Hilary, for
their considerable help during this transitional period.
So, who am I you might ask…………………well I have been a member of the PBC since
May ’72 having been proposed by The Clerk (the late Peter Knottley well known as
Randonneur in Cycling magazine). I have no great claims to fame, other than having
been mainly a Time Triallist for a fair number of years, regular weekly track rider
at Herne Hill, and an avid touring cyclist around the UK & Europe (when weren’t
officially part of it!)

We have a proven format with the magazine and it is my intention to continue, but
it is your magazine, so any new ideas or topics that you want to see reported within,
then here’s your chance. Like so many of the club’s activities, it’s the same group
of names represented in the magazine, and so we really do need contributions from
other members.
How about the newly appointed members submitting a short bio of who they are and
their connection to the Club?
As you know, our oldest member and several times President, Mr Trundle (aka Barry
Brandon) sadly passed away in November. A stalwart of the Club, as much as he was
to the British professional cycling fraternity with the famous Bantel Black Cats
team. There are several tributes contained in the following pages from Pickwickians
who knew him well, and in particular from another past President – Jonas Mudge…
(former Olympian and member of the Bantel team – Hugh Porter MBE).

I don’t want to start with a moan, but you will have all seen the communication
from the sectary Sgt Buzfuz about the poor etiquette of members and guests
at the December Garden Party, that delayed the entrance of the President and
Guest Speaker, and so I want to add my two pennorth. It really is sad that we are
all too busy to be on time, talk when others have the floor, or check emails whilst
our guests or officers are talking to us. Yes, we have moved into a faster moving
world than our 19 Century predecessors.
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However, when I joined in 1972, I was in awe of the how great it was to step out
of the every day world we live in, and enjoy good company, good food (well, on most
occasions) and wine for a few hours without disturbance. The President’s Luncheon
is only a few months away,so let’s try to replicate those old pleasantries for this
year’s President.